+++
title = "System Installs 2021-01-06 hello"
date = 2021-01-06
+++

Prologue
========

Today had some really terrible things happen. Someone, unknown
publically so far, got killed by chud terrorists. Duckworth saved the
ballots. Þrettándinn came and went. Say bye bye my elf and troll
friends. I got a 3D printer. I don\'t know if the goat got torched this
year, but hopefully the yarl takes care of the boat.

hello, a FreeBSD for \"mere mortals\"
=====================================

I read the post on freepo.st and then the one on medium. So I picked up
an ISO build from their site. I always forget the dd step to use
status=progress, so I always past it in:

```
df -h
sudo dd bs=4M status=progress if=hello-whatever-I-downloaded.iso of=/dev/sdn
```

Then I popped the USB stick into one of my many \"garage sale\" laptops
that I never use. A few minutes later it booted up (I admit I am very
lucky). I feel like it took a while, just staring at the FreeBSD splash
screen. Even back when I had a mac, I used to override the apple with
the init dumps just so I could see things happen.

References
==========

-   <https://medium.com/@probonopd/hello-lets-make-a-freebsd-for-mere-mortals-41b8f93ba075>
-   <https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/yu9gvwtmd2>
-   <https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases>
